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The easiest way to save or download hundreds of emails at once from your Yahoo! Mail account is to use a third-party email backup program like MailStore Home. With MailStore Home, you can easily backup your all emails in your Yahoo! Mail account with ease.
NOTE: Please note that MailStore Home software is completely free but only for home and non-commercial purpose only. If you're going to use this software in a commercial environment, be sure to purchase the program.
MailStore Home not only lets you backup emails from Yahoo! Mail but also from other webmail services such as Gmail, Outlook.com, and AOL. In addition to those webmail services, it can also backup emails you're your desktop email clients like Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, and Mozilla Thunderbird.
However, in this guide, we're going to use this software to download or save emails from Yahoo! Mail account only. But the procedure to download emails from other webmail services isn't very different with MailStore.
Download emails from Yahoo! Mail account
Step 1: Visit this page of MailStore Home and download the free copy of the software. The setup file is under 6 MB and supports all recent versions of Windows, both 32 and 64-bit.
Step 2: Run the setup program and follow the straight-forward on-screen instructions to get it installed. Please note that the setup program lets you create a portable version of the software on a drive so that you can use MailStore Home without actually installing it.
Step 3: Once installed, launch MailStore Home program. Under Quick Access (see picture), click on the option labelled Archive E-mail to proceed to the next step.
Step 4: Here, under Create Profile section, type in your email ID, and then click Start button. For instance, if your email ID is [email protected], please type the same in the box before clicking the Start button.
Step 5: In the following step, you'll be asked to enter the password of your email account. Enter the same and then click OK button to continue. MailStore will automatically connect to Microsoft severs to detect settings.
Note: You don't need to manually configure server settings for your Yahoo! Mail account. MailStore automatically detects required settings and tests the same before commencing to download emails.
Step 6: Finally, you'll see the following screen with “MailStore has created a new profile for you. Double-click it to start archiving” message. Click OK button.
Now, select your profile and then click Run button to begin downloading your emails. Depending on the number of emails present in your inbox and your internet connection speed, MailStore might take up to hours to complete the process.
The good thing is that if for some reason your internet connection stops working or your PC restarts, you don't need to start all over again. Simply select you profile (as mentioned in Step 6) and then click Run button again to resume the download work.
Once all emails are saved in your PC, you can open and view them. Note that MailStore also lets you restore saved emails to an email account.
That's it!
